DOI issue:
Nr 76 (July 1899)
DOI article:Studio-talk
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.19232#0159
Studio-Talk
whom the questuante stands are deliciously fresh
and characteristic, each with a type of its own.
This picture was first exhibited in Paris, where it
received an honourable mention.
A good piece of purely decorative work is Signor
Antonio Rizzi’s design for a newspaper cover, with
its superb white peacock standing out against a
row of dark cypresses.
non Flectar. It is really admirable for the bold
movement of the head and neck, which might
easily have degenerated into theatricality. There
is a freshness of impression about the work which
carries conviction to the spectator. The same
artist—to whom, by-the-bye, Gladstone sat for his
portrait—exhibits a medallion likeness of Queen
Victoria, and an extremely well-modelled bust,
qicattrocenlista in its realism, of a Florentine gentle-
man.
Among the very few works of sculpture exhibited
we may note Professor Dante Sodini’s bust, Frangai Societies seem to be epidemic in Italy just now.
The other day it was the
Corporazione in Venice;
now it is the Italian Society
for Public Art, founded and
established in Florence a
short time ago. Its aims,
however laudable, seem to
an English mind somewhat
rhetorically expressed.
They are: (a) to revive the
love of Art by diffusing a
taste for it afid by promot-
ing and elevating its cult
among all classes; (b) to
apply Art to everything
that is of public utility and
of common use, adapting
it to the results of scientific
progress and filling up the
abyss between the manifesta-
tion of art and the necessi-
ties of life; (c) to see that
artistic laws be respected in
buildings, a?id in objects of
private use whenever they
are exposed to the public;
(d) to diffuse among the
public the conviction that
Art is one of the principal
factors of civilisation and of
material well-being., and one
of the most important social
functions. The order is
certainly a large one. If
its fine-sounding phrases
mean anything, they mean
that this group of artists,
critics and professors are
going deliberately to try to
invert the order of evolu-
tion by making a people
bust by dante sodini consciously artistic before
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whom the questuante stands are deliciously fresh
and characteristic, each with a type of its own.
This picture was first exhibited in Paris, where it
received an honourable mention.
A good piece of purely decorative work is Signor
Antonio Rizzi’s design for a newspaper cover, with
its superb white peacock standing out against a
row of dark cypresses.
non Flectar. It is really admirable for the bold
movement of the head and neck, which might
easily have degenerated into theatricality. There
is a freshness of impression about the work which
carries conviction to the spectator. The same
artist—to whom, by-the-bye, Gladstone sat for his
portrait—exhibits a medallion likeness of Queen
Victoria, and an extremely well-modelled bust,
qicattrocenlista in its realism, of a Florentine gentle-
man.
Among the very few works of sculpture exhibited
we may note Professor Dante Sodini’s bust, Frangai Societies seem to be epidemic in Italy just now.
The other day it was the
Corporazione in Venice;
now it is the Italian Society
for Public Art, founded and
established in Florence a
short time ago. Its aims,
however laudable, seem to
an English mind somewhat
rhetorically expressed.
They are: (a) to revive the
love of Art by diffusing a
taste for it afid by promot-
ing and elevating its cult
among all classes; (b) to
apply Art to everything
that is of public utility and
of common use, adapting
it to the results of scientific
progress and filling up the
abyss between the manifesta-
tion of art and the necessi-
ties of life; (c) to see that
artistic laws be respected in
buildings, a?id in objects of
private use whenever they
are exposed to the public;
(d) to diffuse among the
public the conviction that
Art is one of the principal
factors of civilisation and of
material well-being., and one
of the most important social
functions. The order is
certainly a large one. If
its fine-sounding phrases
mean anything, they mean
that this group of artists,
critics and professors are
going deliberately to try to
invert the order of evolu-
tion by making a people
bust by dante sodini consciously artistic before
T33